General Forum

My goal is for my basement and collection to stay dry. I lost a lot of cards last spring to flooding. I did the repair work myself on the basement and was able to replace a fraction of my collection this winter. I've scanned a few cards over the past couple of days and have had some fun. Put a couple of sets in binders that were sitting in boxes all summer. I think I'm finding that spark again. 

I didn't have any goals for 2019 but I think I should have some objectives for this coming year. Probability of success in bold.

1. Finish processing the remaining 300k BB, BSK, FB, and NS by June 75%
2. If the bulk sale of 500k of hockey doesn’t pan out, I’ll be re-visiting this topic same time next year. TBA
3. Meet 5 or more other members. 50% (Toronto Expo show May 1-3 ??) or see #4.
4. Attend the National. 60%.
5. Reach 750 transactions. 85%
6. Try eBay selling. 25% (May apply to #2.)
7. Reach 10,000+ Blue Jay cards. 90%. Reach #1 Blue Jay collection 75%
8. With today’s mail I hit 100 cards in 1958 Topps. Would like to get to halfway. 50%.
9. 1960 Topps is at 47%. Would like to get to 80%. 50%
10. Complete sets (base & insert) that are near complete, 75% or more and some being “one and done”, as per site report. Currently 113 baseball, 2 basketball, 26 non-sports. Likelihood to complete all 10%. Half of them 70%.
11. Rip a minimum of one box per month of 1998-2009 of non-Topps baseball/football. Lots of great Fleer, UD, etc. boxes out there at good prices. First January box ordered should arrive this week. 95%
12. Rip less overpriced blasters and boxes of 2020 product and buy more HC sets. We’ll see how long this lasts. 50%.
13. Send out at least one PIF per month. As well as topping up trades whenever possible.

Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

Have sucessful shoulder surgery.

Have sucessful physio afterwards.

Be able to return to work after I'm healed and not wonder what's next.

Not lose my house, sanity and of course my collection.

If needed start a sucessful and vibrant foray into the business of sports cards, etc.

Needless to say 2020 is a big mystery for the Patan clan. I have been given the news of a career ending shoulder injury needing major reconstructive surgery. I am trying to wind down my last two jobs so I can apply for my injury insurances and sit on my ass waiting for my surgeon to call. 6 to 9 months is the timeline for the entire process so this means no work aka no money, insurances will be just enough to cover living costs. Because of this my New Year's Resolution is to not bid on any more cards and not purchase and boxes of cards until I can definitvely know where I stand financially, unless of course I fluke off and win $65 million tonight on the lottery. Things are way to akward right now to figure it all out but trust me you guys will get sick of me soon. If I have to kill months of boredom, this IS my second home. LOL wish me luck!!

Maybe I should have set a harder goal.

I decided on December 30th that I was going to have a goal in 2020 after all, and that it would be to scan all the cards I got for Christmas, minus the Topps stickers, before Christmas 2020. 

Considering I got 824 cards for Christmas, I figured this goal would be something that I could do easily, even if I got antsy doing page after page of the same set- a common problem with me. 

I didn't expect it would be this easy though. Because as of 7:13 AM today, I'm done already*. Granted, the Topps Stickers take up 235 of those 824...but still, wow, that went faster than I ever expected. When I came up with that goal on December 30th I still had more than half of them ahead of me. 

This is even more amazing to me because my health problems have been acting up since the 31st so that has slowed me down some....but still moving through them quicker than I would have guessed. 

This was the last card I needed to do to call this done:

I was originally not going to scan the blue parallels from my OPC box now, and instead pick up a couple of parallels on COMC to get a full page. I changed my mind, since the back of the cards is why they need to be scanned as a unit, not the front. Any card with a modern brown back would do, and I knew I had a small stack of cards from various Upper Deck era O-Pee-Chee releases, so three cards from the 2012-13 set did the trick. 

Now, I do have that asterisk there. (*). I have five cards from the MVP fatpack waiting to be scanned. They will be scanned in a unit (page) of nine, because I bought 4 of the short prints on COMC with the $100 my brother gave me for Christmas to spend on there, and I've requested shipment. Although it hasn't actually shipped out yet, it would be foolish to do them now when I will be able to do a full page in a short time. With the unusual blue coloration of the set this year, I find it's best to scan them in units of 9.  But close enough. I've essentially finished and will move on to scanning something else now.  It's possible that the cards I got for Christmas in 2018...and 2017...and 2016...will be among those scanned.

I have about 14,100 dupes  and my goal is like last year to reduce this down   via 

1. trades 
2. Trade + PIFs  
3. PIFs
4. Birthday Cards  
5. Veterens Day cards why to so I can get my dupes down to 
6. Christmas/Holiday Cards 
7.  Any other reason I can figure out to get dupes down to 12,500 cards 

Robert

for 2020-

1. stick to my goals and stop chasing squirrels

2. Down size, come to realization that what i really want to do , is not possible with the current life style.. boohooo ---world domination is out of the question-- downsizing will come with my For Sale/Trade list increasing and more listings on ebay. 

3. Concentrate more on my current Wanlist and selected Rookies/Auto's. 

My overall goal is to collect every OPC and UD hockey set from 1968 to present.  That includes Young Guns and updates, but does not include inserts or other issues like Platinum, Chrome, MVP, Victory, etc.

Update on Annual Goals – Continue to:

1. Add completed sets to my collection: 2019 progress – completed 22 sets; total completed sets = 166
2. Execute more trades on this site: 2019 – 60 (2018 – 20; 2017 = 10); total trades 90
3. Sell cards from my trade list: 2019 – no sales (maybe more sales as my wantlist gets smaller)

Update on 2019 Goals:

1. Get through The Hoarder Lot – Complete
2. Add 2018-19 OPC and UD sets to the collection – Complete

Goals for 2020 – in addition to annual goals:

1. Add 2019-20 OPC and UD sets to the collection – OPC base + Rookies and UD S1 Complete
2. Organize and Label all completed sets in binders
3. Complete and mount wall display for selected cards – mainly rookies
4. Use Goal feature on TCDB to track progress

Happy Collecting!

4.  Stay out of wife's dresser drawers.

My 202 Goals are simple.

1. Increase my $ budget for 2020 

2. look into using a buying system to pick up all my insert setsd I need to finish off my Master sets.

3. Make better videos on my you tube channel.

4. Continue getting my collections graded (Not for Sale)

5. Pray i don't die this year\, started Oxygen Threapy 1/6/20

6. Continue having fun collecting my cards and stuff, its all in the hunt.